Note: Trowa's point of view

Back to you

My first thought was 'Oh my God!' and then my second thought was 'thank you, thank you I get another chance.' And you know, last night I told myself that if I ever saw him again I would tell him I was sorry, that I had made a huge mistake in leaving him for that horrid phony of a woman. But the first intelligent words that pour from my foul mouth are-

"Duo? What are you doing here?" he looks stunned can't say I blame him.

"What are you.........God I must still be in bed. Ok Duo it's time to wake up." I can't help but smile.

"Duo you're awake trust me." I watch as he bites his lower lip as if it would better help him judge the situation.

"So uh...California it's warm huh?"

"I'd hope so or else I brought the wrong kind of clothes." Oh yeah this is leading somewhere. "So......why are you uh.....going to Cali?"

"Me? Oh um.....to relax I had um.....vacation." and then I heard him say under his breath. "And to regain my sanity." I couldn't help but smile at that.

"So...how have you been Duo?" halfway through the question I regretted asking it. Only because I was too afraid he would say that he was seeing someone. That he had finally found someone who could replace.........me.

"Oh I've been great!" that was so fake.

"Really, so what have you done lately?" I saw his face fall for a second.

"Well, I uh.....got promoted. I lost five vanity pounds and gained them right back on Halloween." He smiled so widely so brightly that it was contagious and once again I was smiling. God I hope he doesn't notice.

"That's great and now you get to tell everyone what to do, just what you always wanted. I'm happy for you." I grab the book I had placed beside me before I had fallen asleep earlier.

"Whoa I never figured you'd read those sort of books Tro!" I looked down at my book and then back at him. And realized that he so quickly reverted back to the nick name he'd chosen for me.

"What's wrong with reading romance novels?" I watched as he quickly covered his mouth and turned his head as if that could hide the fact that his body was shaking with silent laugher.

"Tro I'm sorry but if I remember correctly you were into blood, guts, Terminator, and war."

"Well I guess I have Jess to blame for that now don't I?" if I hadn't been staring at him I would have missed the hurt that had passed through his beautiful violet eyes.

"Your girlfriend?"

"Ex."

"Oh......sorry." I could see he was trying to hide a smile.

"Don't be, she was completely wrong for me. It just took me a while to realize that. So uh.......are you seeing anyone right now?" now that was subtle.

"I'm not really in a "relationship" I've just sort of been here and there for a while." He had lifted his left then right hand as if his left was "here" and his right was "there".

"Oh......I don't get it?" suddenly a flight attendant came out and did the ritual showing of how to work the seat belts and all over need to know things. Afterwards I looked back at Duo and he knew I wanted him to elaborate.

"Do you......do you remember Heero?" crap that guy.

"Actually yes, yes I do."

"Well after us, I sort of just wanted company and Heero was there so yeah." He seemed a bit uncomfortable.

"Is something wrong?"

"No, it's just well that's all we seem to do together. It was like some unspoken agreement. You know? Like if I called him and asked him to come over it was implied that I wanted him there so that we could, do stuff. It worked vise-versa as well. I don't know I guess it just sort of rubbed me the wrong way after a while." He had been nibbling at the end of his braid through his small story. It had been hard for me to pay attention because I'd been staring at his lips the entire time.

"Maybe, since you knew there was not very much emotional attached feelings to what was going on you realized that wasn't what you wanted." He still had the end of his braid in his mouth and was now staring directly at me as if it was the first time he had ever saw me and that I for some reason fascinated him.

"I always felt you could see into my soul." He whispered then shook his head as if he had just woken out of a trance.

I continued to look at him for a second. "Duo I..."

"When did you break up with your girlfriend?" I could tell he didn't want to continue on what he had said seconds before.

"Last night actually, why?"

"No reason just wondering. So uh......how did that go?" he finally pulled the end of his braid out of his mouth and was leaning back in his seat a little with his hands placed behind his head.

"Actually I didn't want to see her last night and decided that hiding under my desk was the best answer to my problems. So there I was drinking a Pepsi and hoping that she would go away, then the next thing I know she's in the house. Two minutes later she found me hiding under the desk asked me what I was doing underneath it."

"What was your response?" well at least he seems to be enjoying the story.

"The first thing I said was that I needed another Pepsi, then after that I told her I was afraid of the rain."

"When did you tell her it was over?"

"After I had gotten off the phone." I noticed his face turned white for a brief moment. "Well to elaborate," I paused for a second. "someone had called me late at night and since I couldn't sleep I picked it up and on like the first ring. Anyways after like hours of not saying anything, the persons phone died, when I went back to my room she was awake and I knew I didn't want to spend the rest of my life with her, let alone the rest of the night. So I told her I wanted her to take all of her things and give me back the keys I had given her and to get out of my house."

"How'd she react?!" said Duo trying not to laugh.

"Well she actually made quite the scene for it being in the a.m. She had the neighbors staring out their windows and also opening them just to hear what we were saying."

"Oh my God what kind of things did she say."

"Lets see before she called me a fag, or after she tried to hit me with her BMW?"

"I guess she's not as perfect as she seemed." I watched as Duo fiddled with tray rack in front of him.

"She never was perfect Duo, .............you were." I whispered looking directly at him. The second the words poured from my lips his head jerked in my direction and now he was staring straight into my eyes, my soul.

"You want a drink? I think I need a drink." Said Duo throwing his hand in the air trying to flag down one of the people with a cart. The guy with the cart came and gave a sickening smile.

"Yes, what would you like?" Duo eyed the cart for a brief moment then-

"I'll take this, this, this, oh and that! Hey Trojan you going to want anything?"

"Good God Duo don't call me that, especially not in public. And I'll take two of those and one of those." Duo grabbed basically every drink he could get his hands on and I wondered if we were even allowed to.

By the end of the trip we were both not as sober as we had started it off. Duo had started snoring mere minutes after he fell asleep, I just sat there and stared at his face. He was just as beautiful as I remembered, a little worn if you know what I mean, and yet that didn't seem to mare the gorgeous portrait that was him.

But Duo it always came around, back to you. Just the way you moved me, maybe I should have treated you better or smiled in that picture we took at my work, if I had known it was the last one we'd have taken. I was arrogant, stuck in my ways maybe this needed to happen, maybe I needed Jess to make me realize I was like her. It scared me, I hadn't realized before I wasn't as strong I thought I used to be. Back to me, I know that it comes back to me, I spent most of my nights trying to see if any of my clothes still smelled like you, I slept within my bed, with your silhouette. God I probably sound so pathetic! Gently I pushed back a strand of his chestnut colored hair, his mouth gently twitched at my touch and I wished to any God listening, to please.........please let this be real.

"Please sit upright in your chairs and make sure that your seat belts are fastened securely as we will be land quite shortly thank you and I hope you had a pleasant flight! Except for that man in the Navy Blue shirt who grabbed my ass earlier!!" the fight attendant glared at Duo who promptly sunk in his seat. Either way it was his fault for getting smashed on a plane.

"Is she allowed to say ass?" asked Duo as he buckled his seat belt and sat up properly.

"Right now..............anything's possible Duo." I whispered to him. He smiled back at me.

Anything was possible, when you this close to heaven.

A/N: definitely would have been up earlier, but my screen was not working so I had to go on the master users screen and fix the problem which took me forever. And being gone for most of the week didn't help either. But either way it's up and I pray that in a reasonable amount of time the next will be up!

PS. Thanks to those of you who have reviewed it ment a lot to me! And those of you who haven't. I hope you all like this fic!